A GLASGOW teacher had her bank account cleared after falling foul of a cruel Facebook scam.

Amy Halliday, 28, from Shettleston, received a message on the social networking site claiming to be from Facebook administrators two weeks ago.

The message, which stated her account had violated the site's policies, had been sent by fraudsters who stole around £120 from her account after she entered her bank details.

Amy said: "It was from this Support Centre profile, saying they noticed abusive behaviour on my account and if I didn't confirm my details the account would be deleted immediately.

"I use Facebook all the time to keep in touch with friends from all over the place, so it's really important to have it,

"It asked me for my name and address, which I did think was unusual but it seemed genuine.

"It asked for my bank card details and I feel so stupid about it now but I put them in - it said it would not charge me anything on the page."

The next morning Amy woke up to find dozens of messages from friends telling her something was wrong.

She was stunned to discover she had was locked out of her page, her name had been changed to Support Centre and all her friends had received the same message claiming their accounts would be deleted. I couldn't concentrate all day, I was really agitated." she said.

"I checked my internet banking a few days after this happened and noticed my balance was £120 less than what it had been.

"The bank said it had been a series of transactions to a Google account, for small amounts of £4 or £5 at a time.

"If I had a lot more money they could have taken it all as it was over the space of four of five days with small amounts each time so I didn't notice right away.

"At first I didn't even realise the two incidents were linked but I went online and it turns out it has happened to other people too.

"The bank managed to refund the money eventually, and I had to get my card cancelled and contact Facebook to change my profile passwords and everything but I couldn't believe that it had happened so easily."

Amy is now warning others of the scam in a bid to stop more people being conned of cash.

Advice issued by Police Scotland warns internet users never to click on links from unknown sources, make passwords difficult to guess and never respond to emails from unknown sources asking for personal information.

A spokesman for Facebook said the company would not comment on individual cases.